News from November 2019
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019 from 3pm to 6pm: (Admission is free).

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Last week, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Guelph sent a telescope to the top of the sky, almost to space itself. The trip was a moonlight-gathering...
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, praised Senate passage of their Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act (S. 1838) today. The amended bipartisan bill was unanimously reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in September.

By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: FAIRFAX, VA - This week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) evaluated a suite of in-building sensors developed through the Smart City Internet of Things Innovation (SCITI - pronounced “city") Labs effort during a live active shooter exercise at George Mason...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a 36-count superseding indictment charging JENNIFER FARRELL and JIMIESHA McKOY with narcotics distribution offenses.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Pasco, Washington Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A convicted felon who was arrested with firearms and drugs after fleeing from Salina police was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, a Montgomery, Alabama resident, Marie Antoinette Bozeman, 40, received a 77-month sentence following her conviction for orchestrating a wire fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Bozeman’s scheme involved the use of fraudulent debit card numbers to pay utility bills.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Calendar Fraud.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALVIN ROBERTSON, 56, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing three bank robberies and two Subway store robberies in Connecticut last year.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM crews recently demolished a building used to repair heavily shielded railroad cask cars that carried nuclear materials from reactor buildings to chemical processing facilities during the Cold War era at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Tyler C. Amon, Special Agent in Charge of EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division in New England, announced that COLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS, INC., a Massachusetts-based house painting company, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to violating the Toxic Substances Control Act and subsequently falsifying records.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the arrest today of STUART FINKELSTEIN on charges of mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, false declarations to a court, and obstruction of justice. Specifically, FINKELSTEIN has been charged with stealing...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM recently reached a milestone at the Savannah River Site (SRS) by fully transitioning to low-cost solar-powered technology to clean up solvents in a closed basin and the groundwater beneath it.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - A former Lake Charles Police Department officer was sentenced today in federal court for using unreasonable excessive force during an arrest, announced David C. Joseph, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and FBI’s New Orleans Field Office Special Agent in Charge Bryan A. Vorndran.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jaime Montalvo-Mariscal, age 27, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced Nov. 18, 2019 after having pleaded guilty on July 22, 2019, to Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with the Intent to Distribute...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: MACON, Ga.- A former youth softball umpire arrested during “Operation End Game," a multi-agency effort targeting and arresting adult perpetrators seeking sex with children, entered a guilty plea in federal court this morning, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Ralph V. Signoracci, IV, age 44, of Cohoes, New York, was sentenced today to serve a one-year term of probation and 100 hours of community service after previously pleading guilty to conspiring with Cohoes Mayor Shawn Morse to defraud Morse’s supporters by stealing campaign contributions for Morse’s personal benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging David John Ridling (57, Vero Beach) with 10 counts of wire fraud, 4 counts of bank fraud, 9 counts of money laundering, and 2 counts of aggravated identity theft. If convicted, Ridling faces...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. -Two New Jersey men today admitted their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed significant quantities of heroin and cocaine in the Bayshore area of Monmouth and Middlesex counties, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.